Aunt Dide had begun to bustle about the room again.

She did not say a word.
Towards the evening Antoine went out, after putting on a blouse, and pulling over his eyes a big cap which his mother had bought for him.
He returned into the town in the same manner as he had quitted it, by relating some nonsensical story to the national guards who were on duty at the Rome Gate.

Then he made his way to the old quarter, where he crept from house to house in a mysterious manner.

All the Republicans of advanced views, all the members of the brotherhood who had not followed the insurrectionary army, met in an obscure inn, where Macquart had made an appointment with them.

When about fifty men were assembled, he made a speech, in which he spoke of personal vengeance that must be wreaked, of a victory that must be gained, and of a disgraceful yoke that must be thrown off.